The baffling complexity of current tax rules deprives the NHS of some of its most skilled and experienced staff. Image credit: Financial Times

Discussions about Gwlad’s unique policy of Citizens’ Income and Flat Tax tend to concentrate on the former (i.e. the income), and ignore the latter (i.e. the tax) altogether. Yet the two are tightly bound together. As I’ve attempted to explain elsewhere, our intention is not, in fact, that individuals should end up paying significantly more or less net tax than they do already. In this article I hope to explain how this relates directly to the NHS. Read More

In Carmarthenshire a Plaid Cymru led council is caught up in a mire of a public project which may never have been viable and threatens the whole Swansea Bay City Deal.

Details are emerging of the betrayal of the people of Carmarthenshire, and the Swansea Bay City Region as a whole, by the less than noble proponents of the “Flagship” Wellness Neurosciences Village planned to create jobs and prosperity in Llanelli. The whole mess is not yet fully investigated but the theme of the reports to date is that the scheme was never properly planned or thought out and some of its leading proponents were clearly lacking in honesty, integrity, objectivity and impartiality. Read More